Lifting device for additive manufacturing and operational method thereof

a lifting device and additive manufacturing technology, applied in the direction of additive manufacturing, manufacturing tools, additive manufacturing, etc., can solve the problems of inconvenient subsequent assembly, disassembly, maintenance, and high energy consumption, so as to reduce the processing space and the powder feeding space, reduce the loss of powders, and reduce the printing area

US20200061913A1Inactive Publication Date: 2020-02-27TONG-TAI MASCH & TOOL CO LTD
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2020-02-27
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Abstract

A lifting device for additive manufacturing and an operational method thereof are provided. The lifting device has a base, a processing module, a powder feeding module, a linkage module, and a lifting module. The base is formed with a processing space and a powder feeding space. The processing module has a processing base, and the powder feeding module has a powder feeding base. The processing base and the powder feeding base are driven and moved by the lifting module. Thereby, two power sources of a traditional lifting device can be integrated into a single power source.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application claims the priority of Chinese Application No. 201810965584.4, filed on Aug. 23, 2018, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF INVENTION

[0002] The present disclosure relates to a lifting device and an operational method thereof, and in particular to a lifting device for additive manufacturing and an operational method thereof.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

[0003] Additive manufacturing technology is also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing or rapid prototyping technology. It is technology that uses adhesive material (such as powdered metal or plastic) or a fuse to construct an object by stacking up layers based on digital module data. Current commonly-used methods of additive manufacturing include laser powder melting, electron beam powder melting, laser coaxial feeding, and arc fuse shaping technology. Among them, the laser powder melting technology is a new type of additive manufacturing, and doe...

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[0022]The structure and the technical means adopted by the present disclosure to achieve the above and other objects can be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings. Furthermore, directional terms described by the present disclosure, such as upper, lower, front, back, left, right, inner, outer, side, longitudinal / vertical, transverse / horizontal, etc., are only directions by referring to the accompanying drawings, and thus the used directional terms are used to describe and understand the present disclosure, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

[0023]Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, a lifting device for additive manufacturing according to the preferred embodiment of the present disclosure is illustrated, wherein the lifting device is disposed in a processing chamber 101 of a three-dimensional printing equipment for additive manufacturing and comprises a base 2, a processing module 3, a powder...